I dont know much about the political issues involved in SSP but I strongly feel that SSP has provided a new life to millions in Gujarat so far. The Narmada Water is flowing in almost every river of Gujarat today. And these are the same rivers which we never used to consider as rivers few years back as there never used to be ample water. Now, when a state is progressing by an excellent project, people like Patkar (may be out of jealousy or a desire to fame) just dropping bombs in the progress. SSP should be completed at the earliest for better of human kind in general - with no more stupid issues like Narmada Bachao Andolan etc.
In this country, we always find people fighting for no reason and raising issues that actually dont exist. I strongly feel that Megha Patkar is one of them. Just because she comes from a social leadership family, she has no right to spoil lives of millions of people, who used to suffer a lot because of no water few years back.
RE:SSP is the Life Line
by Vistasp Hodiwala on Apr 17, 2006 09:56 AM Permalink
Visualise this my dear Kushal: Say by some twist of fate or circumstance the area around which you are staying at the moment is rich in OIL reserves and for that matter the government decides to develop it by driving you, your family and your entire town out of your homes, decides arbitrarily and unilaterally on a compensation package without taking any of you in confidence, then send touts in the region to fleece you off whatever little you are entitled incase it is cash (and say if it is land they offer, it is someplace which is completely cut off from civilisation and where you have no clue how to sustain yourself!) and worse, in case you peacefully agitate they say you are a traitor to the larger national cause, what would you do? Not just that but if you resist, they blank you out as a statistic, play the media to their advantage and then send police reinforcements to forcibly throw you out a place where you and your family have survived and thrived for so long? Have a heart my friend, have a heart. There has to be some limits to our middleclass hedonism. For how long will we suppress the poor their basic rights and manipulate all arguments in our favour?
